documentation lacking

[dronus]

upowerd, as many packages of newer history, are painfully lacking documentation. 'man upowerd' or 'man UPower' gives merely more than the simple information that this command actually launches the deamon and where to report errors, but nothing about what it does, how it is configured and so on. Crawling the internet usually gives a mess of all day users problems maybe related to the deamon but no clear picture of it either. How to figure out what it actually is? Is the user meant to download and read the source code to know what upowerd does?

The actual problem I was encountering in this case is that my laptop switches the max. cpu frequency to the max. possible frequency after awakening from standby. I guess this is done by the deamon, but can't blame it on it as long I have no idea what it actually does, what scripts are mabye run, how it is configured what it should do and so on.

I think the man page, or some other documentation refferred there should tell the user what the deamon actually does, what files of user interest (invoked scripts, configuration) are related to it etc.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.